Glass Menagerie Review Sheet

Grayson dejesus as jim o connor and carey cox as laura wingfield in the guthrie theater s production of the glass menagerie by tennessee williams now playing at the guthrie s wurtele thrust stage in minneapolis.

Glass menagerie review sheet.

Many plays have narrators i e our town. While watching consider how the. It is essentially the same throughout the play. Dismantling the glass menagerie madison ferris seated plays the daughter and sally field the smothering mother in a revival of tennessee williams s the glass menagerie.

In the production notes to the glass menagerie williams writes disparagingly of the straight realistic play with its genuine frigidaire and authentic ice cubes generally williams found realism to be a flat outdated and insufficient way of approaching emotional experience. 5 0 out of 5 stars the glass menagerie. Were there no narrator we might have a more omniscient point of view. Memories are a tricky thing.

This is the seventh broadway revival of the glass menagerie since its premiere in 1945 the most recent of them a revelatory 2013 production with cherry jones and zachary quinto. One finds in this play an elegiac portrait of misery rather than a scalding enactment of taboo. 5 th wall theatre. Theatrelab the basement 300 e.

January 17 february 8 2020 ticket prices. The glass menagerie review bold and bewitching take on tennessee williams stage the glass menagerie review bold and bewitching take on tennessee williams arcola london. So it makes sense. Tennessee williams collides multiple personalities ejecting themes of.

The glass menagerie is a great domestic tragedy with three very distinctive characters the strong proud amanda the weak and innocent laura and the realistic dreamer tom. One is stuck in the past one complacent in the present and one is dreaming of a future. A capturing drama of characters struggling with the illusion of time. This play only has four characters all very important.

There is no one tragic event here but a general condition of pathos. The effect of having tom as the narrator means that we see things from his point of view. A theater review by julinda d. Photo by t charles erickson.